lowed out into an oblong square (vide sketch of the front, marked No 6). Within are two ante-rooms, each about thirty-five feet broad and twelve. deep; and beyond, an unfinished chamber about twenty-six feet deep. The front screen has three doors, and three windows over them; and the wall which divides the second ante-room from the inner chamber has three doors in it, and over the centre one a large open arch rising nearly to the roof, something like what is seen in the screen of the great cave (vide drawing No. 3): under it are holes in the wall, that seem to have been intended for joists. In this cave are no figures or carved ornaments. It appeared to me, from what I here observed, that the artificers began their labour at top, and worked downwards. From hence an irregular excavation is continued up to the great cave, from which it is divided by so thin a partition, that by some accident a communication has been broken through. In this irregular excavation are left two dhagopes or solid masses of stone, bearing the form of a cupola, which I have no doubt are the same as those described by Mr. Harington in the Asiatic Researches, as general appendages to the temples of Boudha in Ceylon, and which exist in the caves of Ellora and Carli. The three sides of the deep recess, before which the southernmost dhagope stands, are divided into pannels, in which are carved one, two, or more figures in alto-relievo. It will be necessary to premise that the principal figure, which is so frequently repeated on the walls of these excavations,-and which, I suppose, from the particular curling of the hair, from the disposition of the drapery invariably leaving the right arm and breast bare, and from one of the positions in which he is here represented agreeing exactly with his statues in Ceylon, to be the figure of Boudha,—is found only in four attitudes, which, for the sake of referring to, I shall call first, second, third, and fourth; and which I have similarly marked in the drawing No. 4. There are seven figures of him in the third attitude above six feet high in the pannels abovementioned; and in one instance a figure holding a lotus in his left hand is carved in the same pannel, and placed on an equality with that of Boudha (for which vide No. 4, drawing No. 2). This same figure is in another pannel sculptured with a small figure of Boudha over his head (vide No. 3, drawing No. 2.); and around, in smaller compart |